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boto

Introduction

Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
At the moment, boto supports:

Simple Storage Service (S3)

SimpleQueue Service (SQS)

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Mechanical Turk

SimpleDB

CloudFront

CloudWatch

AutoScale

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

Relational Data Service (RDS)

Simple Notification Server (SNS)

Google Storage

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Route53 DNS Service (route53)

Simple Email Service (SES)

Flexible Payment Service (FPS)

CloudFormation

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon SimpleWorkflow

The goal of boto is to support the full breadth and depth of Amazon
Web Services. In addition, boto provides support for other public
services such as Google Storage in addition to private cloud systems
like Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Open Nebula.

Boto is developed mainly using Python 2.6.6 and Python 2.7.1 on Mac OSX
and Ubuntu Maverick. It is known to work on other Linux distributions
and on Windows. Boto requires no additional libraries or packages
other than those that are distributed with Python. Efforts are made
to keep boto compatible with Python 2.5.x but no guarantees are made.